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Friday, July 22, 2011

Paint Party Friday #19

This little painting was done at a real live paint party at my friend Violettes studio for my friends 50th birthday back in March. At first I really didn't like it. But as it sits in my family room I realize how much the mouth and hair remind me of my daughter!

This was done in the studio and the above was finished up at home. As you will see with my chair I constantly paint over things I don't like!

Evolution of my first chair.

Haven't had time to paint this week. Except for a few hours. I changed the rim and added hearts to the rungs. I also darkened the bottom rungs, but don't like the middle so it will be changed yet again!! I am enjoying doing it, but it's really time consuming!

Read ahead for what's been on my mind this week!

A few days ago local news station did a piece on an extreme couponer here in Canada. Resulting in the young woman being harassed by negative sarcastic comments on her face book page. Not only does this girl save her household heaps of money she donates eighty percent of her stash, runs a face book page sharing insider secrets and weekly bargains. Still people manage to call her a hoarder, ocd and criticize her bad spelling.

She may not be the best writer, or speller for that matter. I suspect even a possible learning disability. Still she is clever enough to save her family piles of money, put food on the table at a fraction of the cost and kindly share how she does it! I don’t understand why people feel the need to demean her!

We don’t know the home environment she was raised in. She may not have had the opportunities that some of her readers have. Is spelling such a big deal when a woman saves her family thousands of dollars a year and is able to communicate to others how she does it? Is that a bad thing? I think not!

Years ago I balked at a cousin who stood in line using coupons. Even though I was a frugal cherry picker (only bought what’s on sale) I was still embarrassed to stand in line with my coupon using cousin. Now I proudly stand behind my daughter and watch in amazement as she too saves lots of money using coupons, and also donates a large majority to the local women’s shelters!

Manufacturers encourage people to use coupons. For all those who never use coupons, and I am one of them. Others take our place buying a few extras. In fact we have tried products we’d never otherwise have tried had my daughter not got them free! Many items I now use regularly!

Happy Paint Party to you too Giggles. I love your name, tee hee. I like the piece "Dance", it does show movement and texture and lots of great color. Your chair is looking excellent. Some day I will get to mine, hehehehe. Have a great weekend.

isn't it amazing how cruel people can be. here's a story about somebody that is doing something smart and all the public can do is tear her down. she'll win in the end. hopefully she won't let this negative feed back stop her.

Such wonderful colourful pieces and I love that chair - very funky! I have no problem using coupons, in fact our local supermarket gives them out quarterly when we use our loyalty points card each time we shop - what's not to love about saving money especially in today's ever more depressing and never ending recession?? Happy PPF

Love the painting and your chair is amazing. I use coupons when I can and my daughter is a big fan of extreme couponing, and yes in this day of high prices and bad economy every little bit helps. Kudos to the gal for aharing her knowledge.

Both paintings are beautiful and I love the chair!!!! Yes i say nothing wrong with bad spelling, jeez give the gal a break! Makes me all paranoid to watch my own better now,lol!Or stand behind her and do it on purpose! Were all one ya know anyway! Mitak Oyasin!Deb

Why would anyone harass someone for trying to save money? And the ability to spell is not a very good measure of intelligence. Some can spell well and some can't. We should all do the best we can with what we have and it sounds like that is exactly what she is doing.

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